Michigan family's nightmare turns into dream

. JUST SIX YEARS OLD BEEN THROUGH MORE THAN MOMENT ADULT. SEE LOOKED AT ME SAID SHE COULDN'T BREATHE THIS LITTLE GIRL NAMED ABBEY WON'T LET ANYTHING EVEN CANCER SLOW HER DOWN. SHE IS A FULL FIGHTER. NO CANCER ALWAYS TERRIBLE. NO MATTER WHAT BUT, WHEN CHILD IS DIAGNOSED WELL IT IS ALWAYS TOUGHER HANDLE. SOME TIMES CANCER WENT. ED ALY BUT SOME TIMES CANCER DOES NOT NO WHO MISSING WITH TONIGHT THAT WAYS CAUSE OTHER ABBEY. THAT ABBEY. SHE SIX YEARS OLD AND WHEN YOU ARE SIX, DISNEY IS PRETTY MUCH AS GOOD AS IT GETS. IT IS LONG WAY FROM HARD LANT MICHIGAN TO ORLANDO BUT FOR ABBEY ROAD HAS MUCH LONGER AND TOUGHER NOT SHE WAS NOT IN HAPPENED PEEIST PLACE ON CERTIFICATE. YOU ARE BABY GIRL FROM RUNNING PLAYING AROUND TO, YOU KNOW LIFE SUPPORT WITHIN HOURS. SO, DEVASTATING. IT WAS BREATH TALKINGLY FAST LEER LIVE U MANUFACTURE WITH ALMOST NO BLOOD PRESSURE. HER VEIN COLLAPSED. JUST THE WEIGHT OF FOOD IN HER STOMACH WAS ENOUGH TO CRUSH HER LUNGS AND HEART. THE CULPRIT, SOMETHING CALLED WILM TUMOR IT SUDDENLY TAKEN ABBEY TO THE BREFSH. BUT HER TOUGHNESS WAS EVIDENT. AS THEY WERE PUTTING VENTILATOR IN HER SHE SCREAMED AND SAID, NO. AND THEN IN FACT, ALL OF THE DOCTOR AT THAT POINT STOOD BACK AND CHUCKLED BECAUSE THEY SAID, ANY NORMAL PERSON -- LIKE WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE THAT ENERGY OR THAT STAMINA TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. AND THAT'S OUR ABBEY. LIKE SHE IS A FULL FIGHTER. SHE HAD TO BE. BEATING THE TUMOR WOULD MEAN SURGERY, CHEMOTHERAPY. RADIATION, AND HER STENT ON LIFE SUPPORT. THIS IS ABBEY TODAY. IN REMISSION, AFTER YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUS LOW. IT IS FIGHT THAT ABBEY IS NOW WINNING. BUT IN BEGINNING SHE WAS NOT. I VISIBLY REMEMBER STANDING THERE, CRYING. WITH MY HUSBAND ACTUALLY IN THAT ROOM. SAYING THAT WE JUST WANTED TO HEAR OUR BABY GIRL'S VOICE WE WANT TO SEE HER EYES BECAUSE, YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER WILL. ABBEY FOUGHT HER WAY THROUGH. DIFFERENT VIEW ON LIFE GAME PARENT. TORE TAMMY. I THINK IT IS SOMETHING YOU MIGHT YOU KNOW SNAPPED GET OUT OF FRIDGE. AT THAT POINT YOU MISS HEARING THEM ARE FRIDGE C RUN OPENING DOOR. ABBEY LATEST SCAN CAME BACK CLEAN. SHE CANING STRENGTH, AND WEIGHT. AND THE ENERGY AND ACTIVE SICK YEAR REQUIRES. TO BE SURE, THE VIJ HE IS LENS DOES NOT STOP. DD VIGULANCE DOES NOT STOP. SO WE ARE FEELING GREAT. BUT TEND AUGUST HER NEXT SCAN. WE ARE YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T -- THREE MONTHS WITH NO CHEM HE. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. NOT TOO LONG AGO, MAKE A WISH SENT ABBEY HER FAMILY TO DISNEY. OFFERED FOUND TAPE CHANCE TO BREATHE. TO SMILE. AND TO JUST BE HAPPY FAMILY AGAIN. IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. ABBEY IS BIT SHY. BUT WAS WILLING TO TELL US ABOUT ONE HER FAVORITES RIDES. I KNOW WHICH ONE? WITCH MOUNTAIN. LIGHT GOES UP AND THEN STRAIGHT DOWN. AND EVERYBODY THEY DO IS SO, SO WONDERFUL. ABBEY SAYS HER FAVORITE PART DISNEY WAS POOL. SHE LIKED HER TIME AT SEA WORLD WHERE SHE GOT SEE DOLL FENCE AND PET STING RAYS THEIR BODY SKIN IS BUG GERS. EWW! . ABBEY BACK HOME AND BACK TO JUST BEING A KID. ENJOYING THINGS THAT KIDS DO. AND MOM IS ENJOYING THAT. MOST OF ALL. SHE PLAYING RIDING HER BIKE. I AM THANKFUL EVERYDAY FOR IT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, NOT EVEN

It was breaktakingly fast.

In 2013, Abby arrived at the University of Michigan Hospital with almost no blood pressure. Her veins had collapsed and just the weight of the food in her stomach was enough to crush her lungs and heart.

Abby’s mom, Tammy Fountaine, said it only took hours for her then 5-year-old to go from playing to life support.

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“It was devastating. You can’t even explain what you go through,” Fountaine said.

The culprit? A Wilms’ tumor. It had suddenly taken the Hartland girl to the brink, but her toughness was evident.

“As they were putting the ventilator in her, she screamed and said, ‘No.’ In fact, all of the ICU doctors at that point stood back and chuckled because any normal person would not have had the energy or that stamina to do that at the point she was at,” Fountaine said. “That’s our Abby. She’s a full fighter.”

She had to be.

Beating the Wilms’ tumor meant surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and her stint on life support.

“I vividly remember standing there crying with my husband there in the room, saying that we wanted to hear our baby girl’s voice,” Fountaine said. “You just want to see her eyes because you don’t know if you ever will and that’s devastating.”

A year after living dangerously, Abby is winning the fight. She’s in remission.

As her daughter fought her way through the ups and down, a different view on life became apparent for Fountaine.

“You look back and think of dumb thing you might have snapped at the kids for, you know, get out of the fridge, and that point you miss hearing them run to the fridge and opening the door and shutting it a hundred times a day and getting into the cupboards and, yeah, your whole life perspective changes,” Fountaine said.

Anny’s latest scan came back clean. She’s also gaining strength, weight and the energy a growing girl needs. To be sure, the vigilance hasn’t stopped.

“Everything was gone. They don’t even see spots on the lungs. So, we’re feeling great,” Fountaine said. “But the end of August is her next scan and you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Not too long ago, Make-A-Wish sent Abby and her family to Disney.

“Everything you could possibly think of. It was a wonderful experience,” Fountaine said.

Abby is a bit shy, but did tell Local 4 about one of her favorite rides.

“I know one, Splash Mountain … it like goes up and then straight down,” she said.

Abby said she also loved the pool and her time at Sea World, where she got to feed dolphins and pet sting rays.

For now, Abby is back at home, just being a kid.

“Just playing, riding her bike, and I’m thankful every day for it,” Fountaine said. “Because, like I said, not even a year ago, I would have thought we would be where we are today.”

Pictures: Abby Fountaine

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